The Dodge County News

Dear editor,
When it comes to K-12 education, America’s parents want more choices. In fact, almost two thirds of parents – 64 percent – say they wish they had more options for their children’s education.
In a society where Americans choose practically everything, from the brands of coffee they drink in the morning to the types of cars they drive, it is understandable that parents are demanding more of a say in where they send their children to school.
Parents understand that with greater options come better results for their children. Every child is unique, with distinctive interests and learning styles. Moms and Dads know that a school that might work for one student might not be a good fit for another.
In many states, Georgia included, lawmakers have taken action to provide a more diverse variety of school choices for families.
From January 24 through January 30, millions of Americans will raise awareness about the importance of school choice at an unprecedented 16,140 events – including 419 events in Georgia. These events are planned to coincide with National School Choice Week, the largest celebration of opportunity in education in US history. For families in the Peach State, National School Choice Week provides a good opportunity to review the six different types of education options available to their children. [Full Story »] 

The following arrests were reported by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office for the dates January 12, 2016 through January 18, 2016.
Donald Richards – 1/12/16 – one count possession of drug related object.
Brenton A. Gibson – 1/13/16 – one count pedestrian under the influence (PUI).
Bradley D. Burnam – 1/14/16 – one count conversion of payments for real property.
Dontavious Mayfield – 1/15/16 – one count sexual battery and one count obstruction of officer. [Full Story »] 

Age: 93

Died: Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 64

Died: Thursday, January 7, 2016

Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 22

Died: January 8, 2016

Arrangements: Bridges Funeral Home in Athens was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 77

Died: January 11, 2016

Arrangements: Halsten Funeral Home of Jackson was in charge of arrangements. Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home assisted the family locally.

1004 CONDEMNATIONS

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CITA­TION
IN THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF
DODGE COUN­TY
GEOR­GIA
DE­PART­MENT OF TRANS­POR­TA­TION
VS.
0.078 ACR­ES OF LAND; AND CER­TAIN EASE­MENT RIGHTS; AND
FA­BI­AN M. MANN; AND WIL­LIAM C. BRAS­WELL, IN­DI­VIDU­AL­LY
DOCK­ET NO. 15V7728
IN REM
The said named per­sons and any and all oth­er per­sons known and un­known claim­ing any right, ti­tle, pow­er, in­ter­est, ow­ner­ship, eq­ui­ty, claim or de­mand in and to the lands here­i­naft­er de­scribed, and all oc­cup­ants, ten­ants, less­ees, li­cen­sees and all hold­ers, own­ers and us­ers of ways and ease­ments in, across, over and un­der said land are here­by no­ti­fied, un­der the pro­vi­sions of the Of­fi­cial Code of Geor­gia An­no­tat­ed Sec­tions 32-3-4 through 32-3-19, pro­vid­ing for the ex­er­cise of the pow­er of em­in­ent do­main by the State of Geor­gia, or any of its sub­di­vi­sions, or by any coun­ty of such State, as fol­lows:
That the above stated case, be­ing a con­dem­na­tion in rem against the prop­er­ty here­i­naft­er de­scribed, was filed in said Court on the 30th day of De­cem­ber, 2015; That, in ac­cor­dance with pro­vi­sions of the afore­said Of­fi­cial Code, a Dec­la­ra­tion of Tak­ing, duly au­thor­ized and prop­er­ly ex­e­cut­ed as pro­vid­ed by the Of­fi­cial Code, has been made and filed in said case, de­clar­ing the ne­cess­i­ty for and ex­er­cis­ing the pow­er of tak­ing the said de­scribed lands for State-aid pub­lic road pur­pos­es, there­by vest­ing the ti­tle to same in the De­part­ment of Trans­por­ta­tion; and, in pur­suance of such au­thor­i­ty, the De­part­ment of Trans­por­ta­tion has de­pos­it­ed with the Clerk of the Su­pe­ri­or Court of said Coun­ty $500.00 as the just com­pen­sa­tion for the said lands de­scribed; and all per­sons claim­ing such fund or any in­ter­est there­in, are here­by re­quired to make known their claims to the Court;
In ac­cor­dance with the pro­vi­sions of the Of­fi­cial Code of Geor­gia An­no­tat­ed, the Plain­tiff-Con­dem­nor has prayed the Court for Im­me­diate pos­ses­sion of said prop­er­ty, and all per­sons hav­ing any in­ter­est in or claim against such prop­er­ty, as above set forth, are re­quired by the Or­der of the Judge of said Court to sur­render pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty to the De­part­ment of Trans­por­ta­tion no lat­er than 30 days from fil­ing of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Tak­ing.
That in ac­cor­dance with the Of­fi­cial Code of Geor­gia An­no­tat­ed Sec­tion 32-3-13 through 32-3-19, if the own­er, or any of the own­ers, or any per­son hav­ing a claim against or in­ter­est in said prop­er­ty, shall be dis­sat­is­fied with the com­pen­sa­tion, as es­ti­mat­ed in the Dec­la­ra­tion of Tak­ing and de­pos­it­ed in Court, such per­son or per­sons, or any of them, shall have the right, at any time sub­se­quent to the fil­ing of the Dec­la­ra­tion and the de­pos­it of the fund into Court but not lat­er than 30 days fol­low­ing the date of serv­ice as pro­vid­ed for in the Of­fi­cial Code of Geor­gia An­no­tat­ed Sec­tions 32-3-8 through 32-3-10 to file with the Court a no­tice of ap­peal, the same to be in writ­ing and made a part of the record in the pro­ceed­ings.

The said prop­er­ty, as thus af­fect­ed, is de­scribed as fol­lows:

PRO­JECT NUMBER: MLP00-0087-00(045) DODGE COUN­TY
PAR­CEL NUMBER: 57A
RE­QUIRED R/W: 0.078 ACR­ES OF LAND; AND CER­TAIN EASE­MENT RIGHTS
PROP­ER­TY OWN­ER: FA­BI­AN M. MANN AND WIL­LIAM C. BRAS­WELL

ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN LAND LOT 43 OF THE 20TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS:

BE­GIN­NING AT THE POINT OF IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE EX­IST­ING NORTH­EAST­ERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF US 23/STATE RO­UTE 87 AND THE SOUTH­EAST­ERN PROP­ER­TY LINE OF THE CON­DEM­NEES, SAID POINT BE­ING 78.56 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 202+75.74 ON THE CON­STRUC­TION CEN­TER­LINE OF US 23/STATE RO­UTE 87 ON GEOR­GIA HIGH­WAY PRO­JECT MLP00-0087-00(045); RUN­NING THENCE NORTH­WEST­ER­LY ALONG SAID EX­IST­ING NORTH­EAST­ERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF US 23/STATE RO­UTE 87 A DIS­TANCE OF 158.18 FEET TO A POINT 78.75 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 204+33.92 ON SAID CEN­TER­LINE, SAID POINT ALSO BE­ING A POINT ON THE NORTH­WEST­ERN PROP­ER­TY LINE OF THE CON­DEM­NEES; THENCE NORTH­EAST­ER­LY ALONG SAID PROP­ER­TY LINE A DIS­TANCE OF 21.26 FEET TO A POINT 100.00 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 204+34.54 ON SAID CEN­TER­LINE; THENCE S 17 ? 10’ 53.6” E A DIS­TANCE OF 158.16 FEET TO A POINT 100.00 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 202+76.38 ON SAID CEN­TER­LINE, SAID POINT ALSO BE­ING A POINT ON THE SOUTH­EAST­ERN PROP­ER­TY LINE OF THE CON­DEM­NEES; THENCE SOUTH­WEST­ER­LY ALONG SAID PROP­ER­TY LINE A DIS­TANCE OF 21.45 FEET BACK TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING. SAID DE­SCRIBED LAND BE­ING THE RE­QUIRED RIGHT OF WAY AND IS SHOWN COL­ORED YEL­LOW ON THE AT­TACHED PLATS MARKED AN­NEX 1-A.

FENCE EASE­MENT
BE­GIN­NING AT A POINT ON THE SOUTH­EAST­ERN PROP­ER­TY LINE OF THE CON­DEM­NEES, SAID POINT BE­ING 100.00 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 202+76.38 ON THE CON­STRUC­TION CEN­TER­LINE OF US 23/STATE RO­UTE 87 ON GEOR­GIA HIGH­WAY PRO­JECT MLP00-0087-00(045); RUN­NING THENCE NORTH­WEST­ER­LY ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE TO A POINT 100.00 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 204+13.61 ON SAID CEN­TER­LINE; THENCE NORTH­EAST­ER­LY ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE TO A POINT 105.00 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 204+13.61 ON SAID CEN­TER­LINE; THENCE SOUTH­EAST­ER­LY ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE TO A POINT 105.00 FEET RIGHT OF AND OP­POSITE STA­TION 202+76.54 ON SAID CEN­TER­LINE, SAID POINT ALSO BE­ING A POINT ON THE SOUTH­EAST­ERN PROP­ER­TY LINE OF THE CON­DEM­NEES; THENCE SOUTH­WEST­ER­LY ALONG SAID PROP­ER­TY LINE BACK TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING. SAID DE­SCRIBED LAND BE­ING TEM­PO­RARY EASE­MENT FOR THE CON­STRUC­TION OF A FENCE AND IS SHOWN COL­ORED PUR­PLE ON THE AT­TACHED PLATS MARKED AN­NEX 1-A.

The ti­tle, es­tate, or in­ter­est in the above de­scribed lands, re­quired by con­dem­nor and now tak­en by con­dem­nor for pub­lic use is as fol­lows: Fee sim­ple ti­tle to the above de­scribed land as shown col­ored yel­low on the plats dat­ed 10th day of March, 2008: Last Re­vised: Sheet Nos. 17 and 18 on May 19, 2014 and at­tached here­to as An­nex 1-A.

A tem­po­rary ease­ment is con­demned for the right to con­struct a fence. Said ease­ment will ex­pire on Janu­ary 1, 2019 and is shown col­ored pur­ple on the at­tached plats marked An­nex 1-A. Upon com­ple­tion of the pro­ject, the con­dem­nee shall have the right to use the ease­ment area in ac­cor­dance with the ap­pli­ca­ble zon­ing re­stric­tions, and the con­dem­nor will cease main­tenance of the ease­ment area.
This 30th day of De­cem­ber, 2015
RHETT WALK­ER, Clerk
Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty [Full Story »] 

I can’t remember who said this: Go ahead, Happy Holidays me and I’ll Merry Christmas you right back.
Bumper sticker of the day: Real Trees Make Scents.
Remember Bill Clinton victim Kathleen Willey? She has a book I’d like to read: Target. Imagine any Republican getting away with sleazy Clinton’s (either one) behavior. Which person has more women accusers: Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby?
RightScoop.com has a poll of Alabama Republicans taken Aug. 8, 2015: D. Trump 31%, J. Bush 15%, B. Carson 11%, M. Rubio 11%. Jeb would like to be back at 15 percent today. Remember when the media claimed Carley Fiorina was running ahead of Trump? That didn’t work and they started saying Dr. Ben Carson was ahead of him – anything to bring down The Donald. Polls sometimes tell us more about the pollsters than the public. Somehow Trump is the bad guy to the media and the political class and the Clintons are acceptable. Crazy, isn’t it.
“The Left doesn’t fear Trump…they fear free people.”
Howard Galganov   Galganov.com  7-27-15
“Most importantly for Trump’s prospects: the white working class. Not even his critics deny he has struck a chord with this demographic.”
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“End results that don’t involve government threaten liberals.”
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Yes, liberals need your dependence.
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